My cousin is an old bill out of barking and he says the same. He's thinking of packing it in becuase he says he can't do any real police work as is too busy sorting out people with mental problems, social services work etc

More social workers now the old bill than actually filth... those cop shows they have on SKY 1 etc are an absolute eye opener... all they deal with is basically mentally unstable people that should not be out on the streets

You're absolutely right- it is Khan and Cressida Dick who is head of the Metropolitan Police. I just looked it up.

He has nothing to do with the 20,000 police officers cut since 2010 though, which can't exactly help matters.

Dick said recently: 'Dick said: “We have probably had a 20% increase [in knife crime in London] in the last year and that is not acceptable to me, so I am encouraging my officers to do stop and search as one of many things that will help to bring this number down.”

Dick said body-worn video would help officers feel more confident about using stop and search and protect them against accusation of racism and unfairness.

“I am very much in favour of stop and search. And I’ve said that to my officers and I want them to feel confident to use it. Now we have body-worn video that helps as well in terms of accountability,” she said.

“Quite often somebody may be upset but when they complain and then they look at the video, they think: ‘Oh yes, well actually I behaved badly. It wasn’t the police officer.’”

Sven not all bad... station is under a mile away... fares paid for first 5 years... on top of London Weighting + On Call.. should take me up there or there about's to pension time... only real shitter is seeing that shit heap every day... I might get myself a pair of those horse blinkers...